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US 12,598,350 B2Granted
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for adaptive metering
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsTravis Berthelot, Nigel Smith, Sanjeev Viswambharan, Achilleas Papakostas, Pankaj Bengani, Pararth Sanjiv Mehta
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Abstract
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for adaptive metering are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a condition analyzer to determine a condition associated with a mobile device, a meter selector to select a meter for the mobile device based on the condition, and a data collector to collect data pertaining to the mobile device based on the selected meter.
Claims20
An audience measurement computing system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory having stored therein machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the audience measurement computing system to perform a set of operations comprising:
- using a first meter of a plurality of meters of a media device to obtain first input data, the first input data associated with a user of the media device accessing first media presented on the media device;
- mapping, using a first mapping associated with the first meter, the first input data to first media event data indicative of the presentation of the first media on the media device;
- making a first determination, based on the first input data, that an accuracy of the first meter does not satisfy an accuracy condition;
- in response to making the first determination, switching from using the first meter to using a second meter of the plurality of meters, the second meter different from the first meter;
- using the second meter to obtain second input data associated with the user accessing second media presented on the media device;
- selecting a second mapping associated with the second meter, wherein the second mapping is different from the first mapping;
- and
- mapping, using the selected second mapping, the second input data to second media event data indicative of the presentation of the second media on the media device.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- using a first meter of a plurality of meters of a media device to obtain first input data, the first input data associated with a user of the media device accessing first media presented on the media device;
- mapping, using a first mapping associated with the first meter, the first input data to first media event data indicative of the presentation of the first media on the media device;
- making a first determination, based on the first input data, that an accuracy of the first meter does not satisfy an accuracy condition;
- in response to making the first determination, switching from using the first meter to using a second meter of the plurality of meters, the second meter different from the first meter;
- using the second meter to obtain second input data associated with the user accessing second media presented on the media device;
- selecting a second mapping associated with the second meter, wherein the second mapping is different from the first mapping;
- and
- mapping, using the selected second mapping, the second input data to second media event data indicative of the presentation of the second media on the media device.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause performance of:
- using a first meter of a plurality of meters of a media device to obtain first input data, the first input data associated with a user of the media device accessing first media presented on the media device;
- mapping, using a first mapping associated with the first meter, the first input data to first media event data indicative of the presentation of the first media on the media device;
- making a first determination, based on the first input data, that an accuracy of the first meter does not satisfy an accuracy condition;
- in response to making the first determination, switching from using the first meter to using a second meter of the plurality of meters, the second meter different from the first meter;
- using the second meter to obtain second input data associated with the user accessing second media presented on the media device;
- selecting a second mapping associated with the second meter, wherein the second mapping is different from the first mapping;
- and
- mapping, using the selected second mapping, the second input data to second media event data indicative of the presentation of the second media on the media device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.